Legitimacy in Public Administration: A Discourse Analysis [Paperback]

This volume faces the challenge of the 21st century in this masterly analysis of the legitimate options open to public administration in a democratic society. Against a background of globalization of markets, increased prejudice, and racial and ethnic violence, the author demonstrates the centrality of administrative legitimacy to a 21st century that is an improvement over the 20th.This volume faces the challenge of the 21st century in this masterly analysis of the legitimate options open to public administration in a democratic society. Against a background of globalization of markets, increased prejudice, and racial and ethnic violence, the author demonstrates the centrality of administrative legitimacy to a 21st century that is an improvement over the 20th.The Legitimacy Issue and Academic Discourse
The Framing of the Issue
The Political Background of the Issue
The Misfounding of the Field
A Selected Intellectual History of the Field I
The Founding through Simon's Modernism
A Selected Intellectual History of the Field II
From Minnowbrook to the Present
Beyond Reason